Twi Light Knight

[TByrne]

The carney's setting up against the oncoming night.

http://homepage.mac.com/byrneprintmaker/.Pictures/LancasterCityGallery/skyknight_srgb_web.jpg

[bfurbush]

Great shot - HDR I take it, correct? If so, how many exposures, what lens and settings? Looks like it could either be the EF-S 10-22 or multiple shots stitched, but I'd guess the 10-22.

Fantastic colors and composition, not to mention DOF.

[TByrne]

Great shot - HDR I take it, correct? If so, how many exposures, what lens and settings? Looks like it could either be the EF-S 10-22 or multiple shots stitched, but I'd guess the 10-22.

Fantastic colors and composition, not to mention DOF.

Well, you got the lens right. But otherwise it's a straight handheld shot at twilight slightly cropped. The rest was done with some layer effects (no filters) and masking. I did clone away an annoying object on the upper right. Otherwise I simply pulled out of the RAW file what I imagined when I took the picture. Cloudy twilight gives wonderfully accessable shadows. I wanted to achieve an epic feel ... you know... a really looming presence which is often hard to in the dimensions which we reproduce images on the net. Hope this works.


I only tried HDR once... with terrible results. Plus I find myself uncomfortable with a lot of the HDR palettes. It's an acquired taste that I'm working on.

Thanks for the kind words ... you are quite generous. :o

Ted

[bfurbush]

Very impressed...honestly thought it was an HDR composition from a few photos. Honestly, love the colors, composition and DOF.

I still haven't done an HDR shot, one of those things I keep meaning to shoot and haven't gotten around to it. Plus, given that I go to school in Villanova and live in southeastern MA, not a whole lot of shots necessitate an HDR shot in my opinion.

Out of curiosity, what layer effects did you use in PS? Love your work, looked through your sites :)

[BottomBracket]

Impressive photo from the PhotoShopMeister! I like the angle of the shot to begin with, and the processing you did really pops out. The low angle shot just portrays it as a huge looming presence with the focal point being a massive fist, as if to say, "Don't mess with me". It made me think of Tolkien's work.

[TByrne]

Very impressed...honestly thought it was an HDR composition from a few photos. Honestly, love the colors, composition and DOF.

I still haven't done an HDR shot, one of those things I keep meaning to shoot and haven't gotten around to it. Plus, given that I go to school in Villanova and live in southeastern MA, not a whole lot of shots necessitate an HDR shot in my opinion.

Out of curiosity, what layer effects did you use in PS? Love your work, looked through your sites :)

As I recall (not at my home workstation) they involved curves, levels, saturation, gaussian and motion blur. I tend to create adjustment layers, black them out and then carve back in specific parts of an image to find the idea I sensed when I captured it. That results in a big pile of lacy layers with an original at the bottom. At the end I generally copy all visible to a top layer, sharpen it... black mask it... and then carve in the details that I most want to pop. It's also not unusual for me to pop one final saturation adjustment layer on top to bring back the hues to reasonable levels... all of those adjustments tend to stoke the heat of the various palette intensities which need quenching after all is finished. But even here, I might... and probably did in this case (see the red plastic roses along the right border) bring up some selective colors that I want to use as small, explosive, exclamation points.

Oh... while I don't think I did it in this image... I frequently start the entire process with the transformation tool set to perspective to get the vanishing points where I want them. When you're wielding a 10mm lens, perspective can get unintentionally goofy... and while I like goofy as much as the next guy... I want it to be my goofy, not Canon's.;)

Any of this help?

Ted

PS... between the Philadelphia Main Line in Villanova and New England... you have the entire range of the NorthEast in front of your lenses. I lived in Mass (Springfield and Boston) for twenty years... Envy your spontaneous access to exceptional scenery/people/ideas. You're fortunate.... :p

[TByrne]

Impressive photo from the PhotoShopMeister! I like the angle of the shot to begin with, and the processing you did really pops out. The low angle shot just portrays it as a huge looming presence with the focal point being a massive fist, as if to say, "Don't mess with me". It made me think of Tolkien's work.

So glad you "got" the fist. Yeah... I saw that and went, "POWIE!" That was the foundation for this thing. You are so nice to mention it, and the concept it implied. Thanks...;)

Ted